"I want you, Kaylee, like I’ve never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn."
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"My pulse whooshed in my ears so fast I could barely hear myself speak. “I only have—” “Two days.” He squeezed my hand. “So what? You can spend them feeling sorry for yourself, or you can let me help make them the best two days of your life, and my afterlife. So what’s it gonna be?” I stared into his eyes, like I’d never seen him before. And I hadn’t—not like this. But he’d obviously seen me, better than anyone else ever had. “Well?” Tod watched me, his hand still warm in mine. In answer, I leaned forward and kissed him again."
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"Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail."
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"I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that."
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"I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats."
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"This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn?"
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"I held her tighter, just because I could. Because she was fierce, and beautiful, and mind."
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"Leave the door open," my dad said, the second most common warning in his arsenal. Right behind, "Nash, go home."
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"Together, we'd take crazy to a whole new level. ~Tod"
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"Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts."
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"I don't hate it. It does no good to hate something you can't change."
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"Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had been restored, and I'd whacked a psychotic grim reaper with a cast-iron skillet. Weirdest. Tuesday. Ever."
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"I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option."
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"Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be better off without you, you'd break up with him for his own good. So I...exaggerated how easy it'd be for him to get over you, with Sabine there to step in. But I underestimated how incredibly stubborn you are" "I prefer to think of it as dedication..." I mumbled."
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"Kaylee do you know why you are here?" "Yeah. Because the doors are locked."
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"Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day."
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"I wanted a do over. A time machine. That magic wand. But real life didn't have any easy outs, and very few happily-ever-afters. The real world was more like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, with most of the choices ripped out before you even opened the cover."
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"I should have said something. ... But my mouth wouldn't open, and the longer I stood there in silence, the better I can to understand the problem. It wasn't that I had nothing to say to him. It was that I had too much to say."
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"There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his."
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"I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin."
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